Week 4 Complete!

Hello Friends,
  Week 4 has is winding down and it's been a very productive week! We've been busy learning 3rd grade content and practicing our routines in the classroom.

Updates:
* I have posted useful links on the right hand side of the blog for easy access. I'm going to play with making a symbaloo later next week but they are listed for now!

* We practiced for Community Circle last week and will continue this week. The songs we are learning in music are so sweet...you're going to love it!

* Next Friday is the DBF walking field trip to the Square!

This week in :
MATH= Place Value
* We practiced naming numbers to the hundred thousands place, telling the value of the number in that place. (5 in the 10's place has a value of 50..)

Science: Georgia Habitats
* Each group is studying one habitat and making notes on it in order to create a collaborative google slides presentation to use for teaching the rest of the class. (Jigsaw Learning!) The children will learn how to use Google Slides and will be able to create and  edit their project simultaneously! I am going to teach them how to make comments on each others slides as well.

Reading= Building a reading life.
* Students have been learning about how to log and track books they read as well as graph the genres in order to set reading goals for themselves. Today we looked at Biblionasium and discussed ways to search for, share and recommend books to our friends. Your child has a login info sticker in his/her reading log! Ask them to show you the site. We will spend time navigating it tomorrow!

Writing: Personal narratives

* Students are learning how to 'jot' ideas for writing and to write about a small moment in their memory using 'how and why' details. 

The most exciting thing about this week is that I got the latest Wonder story from pre-order and I can't wait to read Charlotte's chapter. I'm going to wait until we are done with the first book so that I can read it for the first time WITH the children! There is something so fun about reading new books with children! 

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!